Spend Holiday in Samalona Island

Samalona is the name of a beautiful Island in South Sulawesi. This island is a Celebes Tourism place and it is located in Kecamatan Mariso about 6.8 km from the seashore of Makassar as the Capital town of South Sulawesi. The visitors could dive and snorkeling for enjoying the beautiful sea there. This island contents of coral and become various vegetation habitats, white sand spread so clean and large. Moreover, 20 meters from the Samalona beach is a shallow area but in the Eastern and Northern could be 30 meters depth.

If we explore more detail, this island has historical of Indonesian struggle against the Netherlands colonialism, is signed by the Lancaster bomber aircraft which fallen in this area and has become habitats of fish. The fallen of Lancaster estimate happened in Second World War and make it as evidence this place ever been a battle area.

The visitors could get this area by boat about 20-30 minutes from Makassar with US$25/boat. Because of the beautiful of the scenery there, Samalona Island is an interesting Indonesia Tourism place in Celebes Island. In holiday, the local visitors loves spend their time here for relax. The visitors content of local student from Makassar, which use their spare time to enjoy the beautiful island scenery and waste their stress.

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